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There's always ambiguity. People often say "billionaires" but if things get to the point of executing billionaires, it will probably keep going until the rich i
by perl4ever 6y ago
There's always ambiguity. People often say "billionaires" but if things get to the point of executing billionaires, it will probably keep going until the rich includes everyone with a white collar job. Or who wears glasses.
(on the evacuation of Cambodian cities)
"On arrival at the villages to which they had been assigned, evacuees were required to write brief autobiographical essays. The essay's content, particularly with regard to the subject's activity during the Khmer Republic regime, was used to determine their fate...those occupying elite professional roles were usually sent for reeducation, which in practice meant immediate execution or confinement in a labour camp"
- ForHackernews 6y agoSorry but wake me up when the wealthy have to contend with even a new slightly higher tax bracket, and then I'll listen to their hyperbole about the Khmer Rouge. If this is genuinely something you're worried about, maybe a good idea to head it off at the pass by supporting a more equal society today.
- D2187645 6y agoWe have to protect the rich from this fate with more tax cuts.
- perl4ever 6y agoMy salary is in the $50s. But I wear glasses. You're a perfect example of why people who aren't billionaires have something to fear. The billionaires will have their private armies when the revolution comes. And there are only a few of them. I don't care if the billionaires get executed, but there is nobody who wants to do it that will be sated by that.
- ForHackernews 6y agoOk, well you have nothing to fear from me and my bloodthirsty desires for a 45% tax bracket on incomes >$1mm. Consider whether the billionaires you're (indirectly, you say) defending are similarly concerned with protecting your own well-being.